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| Manuscript Name | Papers of Amanda Lohrey |
| Manuscript Number | MSS 213 |
| Last Updated | October 2021 |
| Extent | 5 boxes |
| Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
| Abstract | Literary papers, including drafts of fiction, research notes, notebooks, manuscripts of The Reading Group. Also includes correspondence and other material relating to a defamation case. |
Collection Subject Type
Literary
Scope and Content
A collection of literary papers of Amanda Lohrey, created principally during the 1980s. The collection consists of drafts, especially several drafts and manuscripts of The Reading Group (1988). The collection also includes drafts of other material, notebooks, research files, media clippings. There are also files of correspondence, media clippings and related documents connected with the libel action levelled against The Reading Group in 1989.
Date Range of Content
1980s
Biographical Note
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lohrey
Amanda Lohrey is an Australian writer, novelist and academic. A graduate of the University of Tasmania, Lohrey worked as a researcher for several years before an appointment in writing and textual studies at the University of Technology Sydney from 1988 - 1994. She was appointed lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in 2002, and most recently joined the Australian National University as a visiting fellow in 2016.
She published her first novel, The Morality of Gentlemen in 1984. Her second, The Reading Group (1988), was threatened by defamation action by a Tasmanian senator. The case was settled out of court, including the pulping of 1000 unsold copies. The Reading Group was later reissued.
Since then, she has published the novels Camille’s Bread (1995), The Philosopher’s Doll (2004), Vertigo (2008), A Short History of Richard Kline (2015). In 2010, she published an anthology of short fiction, Reading Madame Bovary. She has also published essays in several publications, including Quarterly Essay, The Monthly, and Hecate.
Lohrey has received a number of awards for her work, including the 1996 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for and the 1996 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Camille’s Bread, the 2011 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Reading Madame Bovary. In 2012, Amanda Lohrey was given the Patrick White Award.
References:
Author record, Amanda Lohrey, AustLit (www.austlit.edu.au), St Lucia: The University of Queensland, 2002-. [Retrieved from https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A20535 15/01/2019].
Administrative Information
Access and Copying Conditions
Access: The permission of Amanda Lohrey is required to access this collection.
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: No copying is approved.
Preferred Citation
Papers of Amanda Lohrey, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 213, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
Provenance
The collection was acquired from Amanda Lohrey in one consignment.
Subject Keywords
Subjects
Australian novelists, Australian essayists, Australian academics
Personal Names
Amanda Lohrey 1947-
Amanda Frances Lillian Lohrey
Amanda Frances Lillian Howard
Corporate Names
Occupations
Writer, novelist, academic
Container List
Box 1
Folder 1
Original manuscript of The Reading Group
Folder 2
Typed drafts -rejects
Final revisions
Integrated resolutions
Folder 3
Michael’ - own draft
Folder 4
‘Sam and Renata’ - notes for future
Resolutions - Part Three ‘Now’
‘Robert and Louise’ - typewritten draft
Folder 5
‘Clare: Andrew’
General miscellanea
Folder 6
‘Sam and Mrs Rennie’ - old draft
Box 2
Folder 7
‘The Country’
First draft - photocopy
Folder 8
‘Robert and Louise’
‘The Visiting Poet’
Draft - structure
The draft
Folder 9
Draft ‘Beginnings’ - typescript
Folder 10
Extracts, research
Folder 11
‘Michael’ (Key) - rough 2 and last instead of first
Reading Group meetings, public scenes, CPS and fire
Folder 12
OWP
‘Andrew and Claire’
Second draft - title pages
Folder 13
Decor
Folder 14
Early drafts
Box 3
Folder 15
‘Terrorism’, research
Folder 16
‘Robert and Louise’
Files list
Folder 17
‘Robert and Louise’ - early drafts
Folder 18
Reading Group - manuscript, Part I
Folder 19
Reading Group - manuscript, Part II
Folder 20
Early drafts, clippings
Folder 21
Notebooks
Box 4
Folder 22
Manuscript - structure C
Folder 23
Manuscript - basis of draft
Folder 24
‘Lyndon’ - early drafts
Folder 25
Miscellanea retrieved from drafts - not used in final version
Box 5
Folder 26
Clippings
Folder 27
Correspondence
Folder 28
Press clippings and related documents
Material relating to rewrite for re-issue by Picador
Folder 29
Miscellaneous items re defamation case
Folder 30
Miscellaneous correspondence re: defamation case
Legal and related correspondence and documents re: defamation case
Folder 31
The Reading Group - annotated copy
Folder 32
The Reading Group - annotated copy